''Calytrix duplistipulata'' is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family

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and is

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to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a

glabrous Glabrousness (from the Latin '' glaber'' meaning "bald", "hairless", "shaved", "smooth") is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes or other such covering. A glabrous surface may be a natural characteristic of all or part o ...

shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped or oblong leaves, and pink to purple flowers with about 9 to 16

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s in a single row.

Description

''Calytrix duplistipulata'' is a glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are elliptic, broadly elliptic to egg-shaped or oblong, long and wide on a petiole long. There are

stipule In botany, a stipule is an outgrowth typically borne on both sides (sometimes on just one side) of the base of a leafstalk (the petiole). Stipules are considered part of the anatomy of the leaf of a typical flowering plant, although in many speci ...

s up to long at base of the leaves, often 2 stipules at the base of floral leaves, and sometimes at the base of the foliage leaves. The flowers are borne on a

peduncle Peduncle may refer to: *Peduncle (botany), a stalk supporting an inflorescence, which is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed *Peduncle (anatomy), a stem, through which a mass of tissue is attached to a body **Peduncle (art ...

long. The floral tube is long, has 10 ribs. The

sepal A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 The term ''sepalum'' was coined ...

s are joined for a short distance at the base, the lobes more or less round or elliptic, long and wide with an

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up to long. The petals are pink to purple, lance-shaped to elliptic, long and wide. There are about 9 to 16 white stamens long in a single row. Flowering occurs from March to November.

Taxonomy

''Calytrix duplistipulata'' was first formally described in 1987 by

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in the journal ''

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'' from specimens collected near

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in 1982. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''duplistipulata'') means 'having double stipules'.

Distribution and habitat

This species of ''Calytrix'' grows in mallee heath in sandy soils on undulating plains from the Hyden district to the

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district in the Coolgardie, Mallee and Murchison bioregions of inland Western Australia.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15395603 Plants described in 1987 duplistipulata Flora of Western Australia Taxa named by Lyndley Craven